How well do you know Kris Kross?

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not sure if you guys are trying to clown, but here's some solid jams:

"tonight's the night" remix with redman (1996):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wgYsQwXr58

"alright" with supa cat (1993):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0z9N7DpdSc

"live and die for hiphop" featuring aaliyah (1996):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ57ETBzXo8

and those were just the singles. i'm not in here claiming these are lost classics or anything, but in my opinion they certainly improved with age. maybe i'm an idiot (don't acknowledge that pls) but i feel like they could have made a successful and meaningful comeback.

rest in peace chris kelly.☮

Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, 6 May 2021 10:40 (two years ago) link

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System, Friday, 14 May 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link

I know “jump” and “misses the bus” and whatever song was flipped for June 27

brimstead, Friday, 14 May 2021 01:00 (two years ago) link

I think this may have been not just the firt rap record I owned, but the first record full stop that wasn't, like, the soundtrack to a Disney movie.

My parents did not have records, my dad had loads of dated but high end hi fi equipment but their music collection consisted of a single Om Kalthoum cassette and a box of reel to reels of radio broadcasts he'd taped as a youth in Baghdad, or maybe Tehran.

My mom liked Bruce Springsteen, "Karma Chameleon" and the Police, but did my dad only tolerated western pop music at best. He had to listen to that damn Kriss Kross album constantly for months, poor guy.

Fauna Sukkot (Deflatormouse), Friday, 14 May 2021 01:42 (two years ago) link

I think we might have had "the best of roy orbison" too, or that could have been a later addition.

Fauna Sukkot (Deflatormouse), Friday, 14 May 2021 01:51 (two years ago) link

I just imagine his feeling of relief each time he briefly switched off the Kriss Kriss tape to listen to the traffic report on 1010 wins every 20 minutes

Fauna Sukkot (Deflatormouse), Friday, 14 May 2021 01:53 (two years ago) link

did not have the album, but know the songs "Jump," "I Missed the Bus," and "Rugrats Rap" by Kriss Kross

Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Friday, 14 May 2021 02:08 (two years ago) link

I know it don't get no rougher.

charlie brown from outta town (GM), Friday, 14 May 2021 02:35 (two years ago) link

the album Young Rich and Dangerous is pretty good, they went g funk and it suited them

Austin those are cool songs thanks for posting

my dad had loads of dated but high end hi fi equipment but their music collection consisted of a single Om Kalthoum cassette and a box of reel to reels of radio broadcasts he'd taped as a youth in Baghdad, or maybe Tehran.

this rules

bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, 14 May 2021 05:22 (two years ago) link

I remember they wore their clothes backwards, I remember they had a big hit called "Jump", but I can't for the life of me remember how it goes.

worth her weight in dogecoin (Lee626), Friday, 14 May 2021 07:36 (two years ago) link

This thread has reminded me Another Bad Creation existed

PaulTMA, Friday, 14 May 2021 10:34 (two years ago) link

easy as one, two, three

Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 14 May 2021 10:57 (two years ago) link

second album was kinda fire iirc

ABC was ok, too. Ain't a thing wrong with this chorus, even if the rest of the track sounds like outsider art

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDPIK7Fz_g4

I'd forgotten Michael Bivins does the same type of spoken bit on this as he did on "Poison." Real-time promo-and-bio in the middle of the damn single is an underrated flex

Know what doesn't hold up? Da Youngsta's

Paul Ponzi, Friday, 14 May 2021 15:09 (two years ago) link

I'm kinda between options 2 and 3 in which I am well acquainted with "Jump" and "Warm It Up", and am aware of the existence of the video for "I Missed The Bus", but could not recall any bit of the song from memory.
I am unfamiliar with the rest of their discography.

MarkoP, Friday, 14 May 2021 15:40 (two years ago) link

I know the singles, and I had the cassette for sure, but I don't remember anything else about it (will have to see if it pries loose any memories though)

change display name (Jordan), Friday, 14 May 2021 15:57 (two years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Saturday, 15 May 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link

wtf I am now listening to “Warm it Up” over breakfast

assert (MatthewK), Saturday, 15 May 2021 00:49 (two years ago) link

Over oatmeal and not cereal, I hope

Vinnie, Saturday, 15 May 2021 00:54 (two years ago) link


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